So Molinari says Malkin is scratched, made a lame joke about it, now he's saying that he doesn't have a clue and could be scratched for a different reason? I hate the media. The whole damn institution.

Pens say upper body injury. Pffft. Not a game that matters too much anyway. Let him rest no matter what the issue is. I do think its from the hit he took last game. He did play the rest of the game, so im not too worried about it.

bringitonhome wrote:Pens say upper body injury. Pffft. Not a game that matters too much anyway. Let him rest no matter what the issue is. I do think its from the hit he took last game. He did play the rest of the game, so im not too worried about it.

The Pens don't have a great history of keeping players out of games after sustaining injury, so him playing the rest of the game really doesn't tell me too much.

GDR wrote:if it's b/c of the shoulder it's another guy the Penguins have lost to a dirty, unpenalized, and illegal check the NHL didn't give a **** about.

First - the hockey gods love 4th liners, because that's the only players they want to see left on the ice after they determine their "hockey god injuries"

Second - That play will make it much harder to swallow the love tap that gets called boarding that puts the penguins down 2 men in the 3rd game of the playoffs during a close game. I'm amazed teams don't start teaching the players to simply stay down after you get hit from behind, sell it - take the 5 minute pp and come back out next shift.